Chapter 9 Solutions — Family and Community

Families and communities follow rules to ensure cooperation, fairness, and smooth daily life.

Common family rules include sharing household chores, respecting elders, helping siblings, and not wasting food or resources.

Neighbourhood rules may cover keeping common areas clean, not making unnecessary noise, and sharing resources responsibly.

These rules are important because they help members live together peacefully, practise values like sevā (service) and dāna (giving), and ensure every member fulfils their duty (dharma) towards others.

Yes, some rules can be unfair if they place more duties on some members than others without reason.

For example, if household chores are assigned only to girls and not to boys, that would be unfair.

The chapter shows that fairness matters — in Tenzing's family, his father shares household chores equally after his mother joined the handicraft cooperative, which reflects a fair sharing of responsibilities.

Rules become unfair when they benefit some people while placing an unequal burden on others, instead of reflecting mutual cooperation and shared duty.